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But later, as they found that Chinese characters have something more than just a good looking, Chinese calligraphy was born.The invention of Chinese brushes greatly pushed the development of Chinese calligraphy as an art.
Chinese calligraphy come from writing Chinese characters. The Chinese characters come from the painting.At the very beginning, people have an intuition about writing Chinese characters well.
You can really feel how the calligraphy felt when he was painting the art work.During the 4000 years of Chinese history, Chinese calligraphy is the sole of Chinese culture.
Chinese calligraphy are different from other calligraphy works. Chinese calligraphy is painted by special calligraphy paper (Xuan paper), special brush and special ink.
Calligraphy is now very popular. You can see a lot of people have calligraphy on their body. Art works contains calligraphy such as Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy are great gift ideas and great decoration of rooms. Many people have calligraphy on their t-shirts.
Chinese culture have a great influence on cultures of the neighborhood countries such as Japan and Korea. These countries are still using Chinese characters and Chinese letter writing more or less in their everyday lives.
Most Japanese calligraphy or Korean calligraphy actually are Chinese calligraphy.
Chinese calligraphy is not just writing Chinese characters. It is not just writing Chinese well.